Wifi - dead spots in the house

Norman_Conquest

Norman_Conquest

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I was just wondering if any of you tech wizards could help me.

We have Virgin Broadband installed at home, been using it for years, but recently I have been spending more time in the extension side of the house and my wifi keeps dropping in and out. I've never really used this room whilst accessing my laptop before and have never noticed it. The funny thing is, I have no trouble picking the wifi up in the garage when I am working and that is the far side of this room and detached from the house.

Is there any way I can resolve this issue?

I have looked at a wifi repeater but not sure what I am doing or throwing money at. :rolleyes:

Cheers in advance.
 
I lose all connection in the bathroom and at my dining table/WFH desk aswell - which is only like 5m away from the router! I got a plug in thing from b&m for 20quid and it's crap.
 
BT have plot in stuff.
They have hubs you can olace in each room and a plug in if your router is mikes away from TV.
It works for us (old Victorian 3 story house)
Would have thought Virgin would have something similar
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I was just wondering if any of you tech wizards could help me.

We have Virgin Broadband installed at home, been using it for years, but recently I have been spending more time in the extension side of the house and my wifi keeps dropping in and out. I've never really used this room whilst accessing my laptop before and have never noticed it. The funny thing is, I have no trouble picking the wifi up in the garage when I am working and that is the far side of this room and detached from the house.

Is there any way I can resolve this issue?

I have looked at a wifi repeater but not sure what I am doing or throwing money at. :rolleyes:

Cheers in advance.
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Something like this will sort it out:


I used the power lines to send the internet to the garage which was about 30 metres away from the router. Worked a treat.
 
Suffered the same sort of problems myself. Bought Google Wifi mesh from Amazon - absolutely brilliant. No signal problems anywhere in the house now.
 
Would echo above - powerline very flakey, nigh on impossible to troubleshoot and at the mercy of the state of your wiring, which dependent on the age of your house but be all manner of idiosyncratic.

Got the Google Mesh thing in ours (Victorian terrace) and it works fine. Not the cheapest, and probably plenty of good alternatives.
 
Our sky box became almost unusable because it kept dropping the wifi. Our router came with a signal booster which did nothing to help until i plugged the box into the booster with a ethernet cable and it's worked perfectly since.
 
Philly-Red said:
Our sky box became almost unusable because it kept dropping the wifi. Our router came with a signal booster which did nothing to help until i plugged the box into the booster with a ethernet cable and it's worked perfectly since.
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Yeah that will have given it the top speed to boost from.

In my house the mesh nodes are all fine with just being wireless but I do run an Ethernet cable from my lounge to my office so that where my main pc is it has full ethernet backhaul, but for 99% of people a 2 or 3 node mesh will be fine
 
Depends what package you are on with Virgin. We had the same issue and they've just sent us a wifi pod (booster) for free and it seems to do the trick. We are on the ultimate oomph bundle (I think), or at least we are for the next few months until the deal runs out.
 
I had similar issues - live in a 1930s semi with really thick walls and reception was shocking in parts of the house despite having 200mb virgin cable connection.

I can highly recommend Amazon eero as a mesh network using your virgin router in modem mode. Dead easy to set up and with 3 nodes i get great connection everywhere, even in the loft conversion. I got mine on quite a cheap black Friday deal.
 
MolteniArcore said:
Something like this will sort it out:


I used the power lines to send the internet to the garage which was about 30 metres away from the router. Worked a treat.
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The wife has just told me there is one of them in the drinks cabinet in that room, I have plugged it in and am presently sending this message from the dead spot room.

My son must have used it when he was at home.

Technology, the both of us are dangerous with it.
 

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If you are with virgin media you can get up to 3 plume pods in the house for £5. We had an engineer come and he recommended them and we have Wi-Fi to the summer house at the bottom of the garden.

The Wi-Fi booster plugs are rubbish.
 
Redlips said:
If you are with virgin media you can get up to 3 plume pods in the house for £5. We had an engineer come and he recommended them and we have Wi-Fi to the summer house at the bottom of the garden.

The Wi-Fi booster plugs are rubbish.
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Is that £5 a month rental or £5 in total?

The plug is working fine so far.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Cheap mesh;

Tenda Nova MW3 Whole Home Mesh WiFi System Pack of 3 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D9CC637/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_NVN4TZ3EPZYBT7P6AZ1J


Powerline will do a job but very unstable, depends on wiring, very jittery and while some won't have problem, many will. Plug in extenders are just naff for the most part
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Tried the powerline which kept dropping out and I had to re-boot them. I have the Tenda Mesh (pack of 3) which is incredibly good and I never suffer from dead spots or Wifi drop out. Worth every penny.
 
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